72-Hour Flu, Times Two

With a baby and a toddler sick, who have thrown up between 8-10 and over 20 times, respectively, over the last five days… it does something to your brain!  Nothing is TMI anymore… I’m sure all you mommas can relate!

So have a laugh… it’s the best way to cope!

Flu

Naomi S. Sahlstrom

 No time to mope!

Hope against hope

It’s the 12-hour flu

If you only knew

It would be 72

Plus twenty-four

And maybe more!

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Only way to get through

Such a terrible flu

A sense of humor,

Prayers to God, or

Just curl up and die.

Oh why oh why

Did I want to be a nurse?!

This terrible curse!

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I will spare you details

When a little boy ails

Of how many towels

What comes out of his bowels

Whatever he eats

Is staining the sheets

(The things I see twice

Are not very nice!)

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No friends have I seen

In this quarantine

We really like you

But not this bad flu

So we stay away

At home all day

Too sick to even play.

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Enter SUPERMOM mode!

When they explode

I whip around

At every sound

I’m quick on the draw

But not for the law;

I’d have it made

In the bucket brigade

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“You’re going to be fine”

Just don’t try to dine

I’m right here

So tuned is my ear

Whenever they blow

Like a volcano

“No, no, no, NO!

Oh ick!

Don’t lick!–

That water bottle of mine.”

…Never mind, it’s fine.

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This is how it will go

With kids feeling low

Laundry for a mile

Oh what a pile

 I would not pick

This time to be sick

How long will this last?

Is there life past

This horrible flu?

Tell me it’s true!

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Oh what a test!

Of who I love best

Though hard to be

Not about me

Love that’s true

Knows what to do

And will sacrifice

When life’s not nice